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Morphing with Light
Or the Use of Flowers and Other Hyper-space Doorways
Together with Numerous Critiques Including
A Partial History of Attempts to Construct Interstellar
Transport Using Small Pieces of Recycled Paper
All Rendered in the form of
Essays Mystical and Critical
With a Narrative of Spiritual Experiences,
an Exploration of Some Illusory Forms
and the Essence of Everything

Text copyright 2014 by J. Davis but is released
for free distribution on the internet under the Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

There is a light behind forms. We could call it the life, soul or spirit of form.
Whatever its name, it is the essence of things, the inner meaning of things. To
read a thing well, is to divine its inner light. In paragraphs, we call it
understanding the meaning. In relationships, reading well is the evocation of
love. In nature, it is resonance with beauty.
The best reading of anything is morphing with light. To get at the inner meaning
of a thing, we identify with it, merge with it. And to read well, we must go deep
into a thing and deep into ourselves. These two depths are intimately related.
Morphing with light is true consciousness, and it is both revelation and selfrevelation.
Everything is in degrees, and the shades of meaning and degrees of light are of
infinite variety. So morphing with light is really a multi-dimensional process. I’m
thinking there are worlds of light behind all forms, and each revelation leads
toward the next.
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Magic and Meaning

I tried to read her in stories, and in the books called sacred and most secret, yet
she eluded me. Sometimes I thought I caught a glimpse of her in nature, but it
resolved into shadows. I was sure, I knew, that if there were shadows there was
also light. So I invoked an elaborate alchemy of approach, yet no prescription
sufficed, and she yielded not. In the stars I looked for her, but every map gave
more questions and never the face I sought. Glimpses, shadows, glimmers,
always the gray game but never the luminous face. I made an alter of finest
quality—by this I found exactly and only my creation, nothing more. She held
herself aloof from the ancient images; my charms held no appeal. We gathered to
invoke her name, but to no avail. Every charm was dispersed, and every craft
and every conjurer’s task was as nothing to her. All commands, all entreaties
came to naught. To number and element she remained immune. Nothing cast or
broken, nothing done or woven, no cycle, no intonation served.
What was the strange and mysterious place of her birth? At first I thought the
ancients had sent her, and that the word of her coming was already known
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among the simple people, even mirrored in their rituals. Then I thought she had
always been with me, waiting for the day when she could speak. But I learned
she had spoken long ago, and many times since, and down the ages to present
moment. She had come to me in luminous dreams I had not remembered. She
sang and whispered, but I did not notice. I know now how distracted I was by
my toys and tricks. Coming to this, I dropped them, and on a morning before the
coming of dawn, I left all behind. I went then to the mountaintop and sat in
silence for a long while. There was nothing within, and seeming nothing
without, and I felt and knew that nothing of the old was needed now. Life
became simple. I had nothing and needed nothing, save something to give—and
that would now be the object of my quest.
And when the sun rose, she came to me at last. Not as whisper but as thunder,
not as glimmer but as a storm of light. Her shafts of song assailed the secret
places of the soul. She sang a new alchemy that cannot be bound in a sacred
book. Her presence unveiled a new history of the world all laid in geometry of
fire. Her charms were constellations, her craft a sphere of glory, her magic the
sunlight of a thousand worlds.

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Intellect and Intuition

Suppose we say, “True intuition has nothing to do with the intellect.” Is this
true? False? Something in between?
The thought is both true and not true, depending on what we mean. It is true in
the sense that intuition is “above” the mind. Certainly, intuition transcends the
mind. At the same time, there is a relationship. Intuition must be expressed and
embodied in the mind and heart on a personal level. That which we are on
intuitive levels must become incarnate.
And here is the catch: unless the mind is well trained, controlled, developed,
focused, integrated with the rest of the personality, then the intuition will not be
able to express itself or will do so in an inadequate or distorted form. So,
paradoxically, the mind and the harmonious integration of the personality as a
whole are crucial to the unfoldment of intuition.

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Without paradox appreciation, a thinker tends to latch on to one end of any
given idea or statement which then degenerates into misleading dogma. Every
metaphysical axiom, as mentally apprehended and expressed, demonstrates
paradox. The essence of every right formulation is in between yes and no, where
the truth is the golden mean between two poles. The faculty of seeing past
divisions and contradictions to the underlying unity is a leap in perception, yet
the failure to appreciate realistic divisions that are before our eyes is also
ignorance—another paradox.

Subjective and Objective

Is “truth” totally subjective? The word “subjective” is often used as a way of
dismissing an experience as not real or indicating it has no validity in the
scientific sense. And “science” (read objective, material, and physical) is the
implied contrasting view that, by comparison, invalidates the merely
“subjective” perception. But the conceptual-terminology-division of objective
science on the one hand and subjective metaphysics on the other is
fundamentally misleading.
Consider the symbol of the hyphen. The origin or root meaning of the word
“hyphen” derives from a word meaning “one.” It means, literally “one.” This
simple symbol relates or unifies words, and by extension their corresponding
concepts. It is a conceptual tool and reminder that we should question each
dichotomy to see to what degree we are satisfied with a given intellectual
division.
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For instance, in some metaphysical writings one comes across the concept of
spirit-matter. Spirit and matter are regarded, in a sense, as one “thing.”
(“Thing” is not quite the right word, but it will have to do.) The idea here is that
spirit and matter are parts of a continuum. So also such closely related concepts
as physics-metaphysics, and subjective-objective. This way of thinking suggests
a method of reexamining words and concepts, and in this light we may
reasonably think that it is not correct to say that truth is “subjective.” Also, it is
not correct to say that truth is “objective.” To separate things in such a
simplistically binary way is unnatural because in nature and in our experiences
we find gradations everywhere. Such analysis may remind us, for instance, that
what we regard as the most objective science is the product of a subjective entity,
the human mind.
Likewise, it is not correct to say that truth is personal or impersonal. All such
binary verbal-conceptual formulations always miss the mark to some degree.
When we submit to the divisions implicit in the many word dualities, we
automatically set up more or less false psychological and perceptual divisions
that mislead us.
We could say that truth is both objective and subjective, though this is an
approximation. Or we could say that whatever is the next evolutionary step for
us (or more broadly, for any entity) is our or their “truth.” It is not that this is
“subjective,” but rather that it is individual—a different thing.
We can explore in the same way the individual and the universal, the absolute
and the relative. There is then relative truth defined by an individual’s current
location in the scheme of things, yet all our individual or relative truths are
surrounded, defined, and stand in relation to absolute truth. Our little truths
derive their relative light and merit from an absolute foundation.

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Home and Family

People idealize home and family, as if vaguely recalling some celestial
correspondence. Yet most homes are rarely celestial, and often correspond to
imprisonment and abuse that violates love. Over-emphasis on blood relations is
often accompanied by a relatively loveless and unhappy bondage. So, instead of
an oasis of culture, the usual home is mainly a karmic burning ground.
Ideally, a home would be a microcosm of true brotherhood. Brotherhood might
begin in a good home, and would have far-ranging significance, because
brotherhood transcends all the narrow groves of conventional clannishness.
Family Potrait by LuisArmandoRasteletti

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Popular Appeals

We should be cautious of a teaching that is popular. Mass acceptance often
means the truth has been diluted or inverted. A truly fresh and uplifting
teaching is unlikely to appeal to large numbers because the appeal must be based
on non-egotistic appeals that are not popular. The teachings of the great
religions of the world were not popular at the time they were founded. After
centuries of debasement, obscurations and distortions—only then did they
descend to a popular level.
Image loosely based on the book Truth and the Dragon by Elsa Bailey

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